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   From: leftardians@cnn.com   
      
   At least seven people have been arrested as opposing groups   
   clashed at the University of North Carolina Saturday over a   
   century-old Confederate statue that was torn down earlier this   
   week.   
      
   Three arrests were for assault, the fourth for destruction of   
   property and the fifth for resisting an officer, Fox 8 North   
   Carolina reported. The sixth arrest was for assault, destruction   
   of property and inciting a riot. There is no current information   
   on the seventh arrest.   
      
   One person was recorded by the station stomping on a Confederate   
   flag and then being led away by police.   
      
   Protesters gathered at the spot where the statue was torn down   
   and held signs and chanted "racists go home," according to the   
   station. Several other people in support of the statue were seen   
   holding Confederate flags.   
      
   Anti-Silent Sam protesters also chanted “Black lives, they   
   matter here!” and “Cops and Klan go hand in hand!,” the Durham   
   Herald Sun reported.   
      
   Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst convicted   
   of leaking classified documents, at the protest, the Durham Indy   
   Week reported.   
      
   “Silent Sam shouldn’t go back up,” Manning was quoted as saying.   
      
   Charges were filed Friday against three people cops say played   
   some part in tearing down the statue.   
      
   Hundreds of student protesters gathered at the UNC campus in   
   Chapel Hill Monday night to bring down the statue known as   
   “Silent Sam.”   
      
   Using ropes and violent force, the protesters toppled the   
   statute which had stood that ground since 1913.   
      
   UNC leaders and many North Carolina leaders, including Gov. Roy   
   Cooper, criticized the protesters’ actions Monday.   
      
   “That Confederate monument has been a flashpoint and a divisive   
   symbol for decades, and especially since Charlottesville, has   
   been the focus of increasing frustration, anxiety and pain for   
   people,” Chancellor Carol Folt said Thursday, according to the   
   paper.   
      
   But Folt added: “No matter what you felt about the monument,   
   what happened on Monday night was destruction of state property,   
   and that is not lawful, and someone could have been badly   
   injured. Using the full breadth of state and university   
   processes, we will do our best to identify, and will hold those   
   responsible accountable.”   
      
   The statue was under constant and costly police surveillance   
   after being vandalized in recent months. Many students, faculty   
   and alumni argued that "Silent Sam" symbolized racism and asked   
   officials to take it down.   
      
   http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/25/seven-arrests-as-protesters-   
   clash-at-unc-over-toppled-silent-sam-statue.html   
      
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